The mosaic depicts a myth in which the Greek goddess of the hunt Artemis (Diana in Roman mythology) was surprised while she was bathing with her handmaidens by the hunter Actaeon, causing the goddess to punish him by turning him into a stag and was devoured by his own hunting dogs.

IZMIR, Oct 12, 2009 (TUR) -- Archaeologists found traces of a temple built for the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis, during excavations in the ancient city of Agora in the western Turkish province of Izmir.

com is an e-tailer first and foremost, the company also sources custom lines for certain clients and markets, mining the public domain for objets d'art it can remake without infringing on a copyright, such as the pictured Head of Hygeia, a reproduction of a 2,400-year-old marble statue of the Greek goddess of health.

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